How socialisation shapes our relationship to the world and our knowledge of ourselves. This lecture addresses: attachment and neoteny, ingroup/outgroup, social conflict, internalisation of rules of social order/morality, surplus repression, conflict at core, executive function of ego, affective dams, cultural impossibility of particular desires and triggering of defences, affects and anxiety; Suppression and Repression; Dreamwork and Interpretation. Contact Email: [email protected] Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain Producer: Nina McIlwain Theme song: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson Artwork: Campbell Henderson https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and to Professor John Sutton for all their hard work. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.